Steve Wieczorek joined the RPI men's soccer program as an assistant coach in April 2024.
Wieczorek comes to Troy after spending the past season as an assistant at the University at Albany men's team. Prior to UAlbany, Wieczorek served as the head coach at The College of Saint Rose and Spring Hill.
Wieczorek was named the head coach at Saint Rose ahead of the 2022 season. In his first year with the Golden Knights he led the team to its first-ever appearance in the NCAA Tournament, going 9-5-4 overall with a 5-3-3 mark in conference play. The Golden Knights were awarded the No. 9 seed in Super Region I for their regular season efforts. He followed up his first campaign by once again making the Northeast-10 Championship Quarterfinals for the second consecutive year.
Saint Rose was the fourth program Wieczorek led to an NCAA Tournament berth. He previously spent seven years at NCAA Division II Spring Hill College in Mobile, Ala., and accrued seven years of NCAA Division I coaching experience with stops at Siena, Duquesne and Oregon State. He is the all-time winningest coach at Spring Hill, which qualified for its second straight Gulf South Conference postseason tournament in 2019 spending several weeks ranked in the United Soccer Coaches top-25 National Poll.
The Badgers were the only team in GSC history to win the regular-season and conference tournament championships with an unblemished league record (13-0) during the 2018 season. Spring Hill went 17-2 overall, ranked #21 in the USC final national Top 25 poll, and advanced to the NCAA Tournament during the program’s first season of NCAA postseason eligibility. The squad’s 17 wins represent a school record, while five players garnered All-Conference accolades, including forward Alex Lipinski who was named to the United Soccer Coaches first-team All-America Team.
Wieczorek graduated magna cum laude from Fairfield University in 2004 with a double major of English Literature and Communication. He has a master's degree in Curriculum and Instruction from Fairfield and a Ph.D. in Sports Management from Troy University. He also holds a United Soccer Coaches Premier Coaching Diploma, an Advanced National Goalkeeping Diploma, and a Performance Analyst Diploma.
As a student-athlete, Wieczorek was a goalkeeper at Fairfield where he led the Stags to four MAAC Tournament appearances and a pair of MAAC finals appearances. He immediately began his coaching career following his graduation as the team's Goalkeeper Coach.
